AI-CODE, a Horizon Europe project, develops innovative generative AI solutions for media professionals to enhance the creation and distribution of trustworthy content. Generative AI is likely to play a crucial role in shaping information dissemination, particularly in next-generation social media environments, where the lack of trusted information poses challenges for media professionals lacking adequate tools and expertise. The project addresses… read more →
The project develops a new solution for the development of AI competences for young people. Interactive “AI experience spaces” will be created that enable young people to experience AI methods transparently in concrete application examples and to explore their mechanisms, as well as to recognise the potential of responsible and the risks of unreflectied AI use. This enables experiential learning… read more →
XAI4Covid is as part of the supplementary funding module of the Volkswagen Foundation that aims at supporting research projects whose findings not only contribute directly to overcoming the crisis, but can also provide impetus for overcoming major societal challenges in the medium to long term. XAI4Covid investigates how research on explainability of AI systems could be translated and applied to… read more →
Das Ziel des Projekts ist ein innovatives Partizipationsformat prototypisch zu entwickeln, das analoge und digitale Formate kombiniert, um BürgerInnen zu befähigen, qualitativ hochwertige Fragen an die Wissenschaft zu erarbeiten, sowie um eine Verwertung der Bürgerbeiträge und die Rückkopplung der Verwertungsergebnisse zu ermöglichen. Dazu soll erstens ein methodisches Vorgehen entwickelt werden, dass die BürgerInnen befähigt, aus ihren Lebensrealitäten heraus Fragestellungen für… read more →
Current debates about increasing polarization of the online public sphere stress the role of AI-mediated information access in creating and/or amplifying “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers”. Such polarizing developments have been linked to both the biased way in which AI algorithms provide recommendations, as well as to well-known cognitive limitations and biases that hinder people from being able or willing… read more →
The enCOMPASS project will implement and validate an integrated socio-technical approach to behavioural change for energy saving, by developing innovative user-friendly digital tools for making energy data consumption available and understandable for the different users and stakeholders (residents, employees, pupils, building managers, utilities, ICT providers) empowering them to collaborate to achieve energy savings and manage their energy needs in energy efficient, cost-effective and comfort-preserving ways. It will demonstrate how this can be achieved by a… read more →
The DAFNE project advocates an integrated and adaptive water resources planning and management approach that explicitly addresses the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus from a novel participatory and multidisciplinary perspective. This includes social, economic, and ecologic dimensions, involves both public and private actors and is socially inclusive, enhances resource efficiency and prevents the loss of ecosystem services in regions where large infrastructures… read more →
POWER is a user-driven project to share knowledge and experience of water related issues in different local authorities, thus creating an important tool for EU water policy. It addresses some of the priorities of the European Innovation Partnership on Water such as the reduction of water consumption and the improvement of water quality. It will develop a common Digital Social Platform… read more →
The KOLEGEA++ project is the follow-up project of KOLEGEA. It extends the Web2.0-based system KOLEGEA, which aims to facilitate knowledge exchange in networks of general practitioners in training, with state-of-the-art incentive models using gamification and reputation elements, and recommender functionalities to further stimulate activity on the platform. Both programs are directed at physicians in specialty training for general practitioners. EIPCM has… read more →
The SmartH2O project aims at providing water utilities, municipalities and citizens with an ICT enabled platform to design, develop and implement better water demand management policies, which are based on a shared understanding and motivation by the water users, thus leading to a reduction in water consumption, while not compromising the quality of life. SmartH2O builds a bi-directional stream between… read more →
The research project CHEST – Collective enHanced Environment for Social Tasks will be integrating social media, crowdsourcing and collective intelligence techniques to support social innovation. Starting in February 2014, the CHEST Challenge will promote the generation of breakthrough ideas which promise substantial societal benefits by using modern Information Technology, carrying out two rounds of open calls for ideas which try… read more →
CUbRIK is a 36-month Collaborative Project involving 15 partners, partially funded by the European Commission. It will provide programmable pipelines implementing workflow for search-based processes coordinated across machine, human and crowd-sourced tasks for the three typical processes of multimedia search: content, query and relevance feedback processing. The final result of the project will be an open platform for multimedia search… read more →
The CUbRIK histoGraph application is a multimedia visual knowledge discovery tool for historical research, aiming to support humanities scholars in their daily research tasks. Integrating machine, human and crowd-sourced tasks, the application enhances access to exisiting multimedia collections. It supports e.g. automatic face detection and recognition of politicians and other important persons in historic photographs. Scholars are also provided with annotation… read more →
CUbRIK is a 36 month Collaborative Project involving 15 partners, partially funded by the European Commission. The Social Fashion Trend Intelligence application is one of two application demonstrators of the CUbRIK project. Integrating machine, human and crowd-sourced tasks, the application provides fashion trend analysis tools for small and medium businesses in the fashion industry, enabling them to identify insights into… read more →
The KOLEGEA project develops a Web2.0-based system to facilitate knowledge exchange in networks of physicians integrating state-of-the-art knowledge visualisation with social media and mobile computing (tablets, smartphones, smart pens). KOLEGEA aims to support physicians in specialty training for general practitioners (GPs): Not being organized in coherent vocational training programs, they are often confronted with highly restricted access to occupational knowledge… read more →
With the Elocal project, EIPCM is developing a Web2.0 platform for participatory city management. Its objective is to stimulate active citizen participation in local government through collaborative elicitation of citizen needs, their interactive visualization and online dialogue between the citizens and the local administration. A central element of its design is the data-centric interaction around a shared visualization facilitating online… read more →
The Open City Cockpit seeks to design visual systems for social data analysis in Open Government applications. Based on the integration of theoretical models with findings from formative evaluations and stakeholder workshops with a prototype system, a multi- perspective visualization model and user interface designs were developed addressing specific requirements of social data analysis in heterogeneous stakeholder settings. The design… read more →
In cooperation with the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA School of Governance we are building-up an innovation lab providing a trans-disciplinary playfield for learning about and experimenting with novel forms of social innovation. The Social Innovation Lab combines courses, workshops and pilot projects and offers a cooperation platform connecting actors from business, public administration and civil society in joint projects. Current Social Innovation Lab projects… read more →
The SoHuman Workshop Series aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to explore the challenges and opportunities of applying social media to designing novel applications of collective intelligence, with a special focus on crowdsourcing and human computation. By emphasizing practical challenges and experiences with real-world applications, the workshops will stimulate the discussion on best practices in this… read more →
The German “Energiewende”, the political decision of the German government to phase out of the use of nuclear energy within the upcoming decade, has confronted economy, society and politics with great challenges. In an on-going series of Trialogues (Three-Actor-Dialogues) organised by the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA School of Governance, the pertaining problems, interests, conflicts of objectives and possible courses of action connected to… read more →
The CUbRIK Fashion application provides new, affordable means of trend analysis of current consumer preferences in the fashion domain based on social network posts. Targeting small and medium fashion enterprises, one of the analysis functionalities enables the SMEs to upload photos of their own product line and perform a “similarity check”. It asses the product’s popularity by comparing it with… read more →